Can you tell us how to get to Sesame Street? Iconic show’s search for new home sparks concern for kids’ TV

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/sesame-street-hbo-1.7424666

31 comments

  1. Moving to HBO always seemed like an odd decision. I’m guessing this will land on Netflix or Prime; especially now that they both have ad-supported tiers. Kids are one of the few demographics that will actually sit there and watch commercials, so it’d be a good fit…

  2. They can come to my streaming platform . Done . See guys it’s all bullshit

  3. I really hope it lands somewhere. I don’t have kids, but visiting my friend who has 4 I got to see a lot of kids tv. No matter how different Sesame Street is now from when I was a kid, it is hard to imagine that it is worse than what I saw.

  4. It’s run its course. The lovely pace of the original is long gone. Now all that’s left is a muppet on speed. Let it fade into the sunset.

  5. “Hi kids, it’s your friend Elmo! We’re going to learn about the numbers 45 and 47 and why they’re great and why 44 and 46 are bad numbers. Tomorrow’s episode will be brought to you by the numbers 14 & 88.” -sometime in the future

  6. America sure does care about its kids and early learning! Or does it?

  7. We need more idiots that’s the idea build up your workforce of idiot lemmings. Great.

  8. They need to move to an OTT model, with FAST channels and content licensed out across all streaming.

  9. Good riddance, we all know Elmo is a DEI

    /s x100million

  10. They need to adapt to the times. No one really has cable anymore. Land on a streaming platform and monetize with YouTube. I have 4 kids. We have no cable.

  11. Oh I can already see it now. Soon we will have people like Ben Shapiro, Alex Jones, and Matt Walsh making content for kids telling them that sharing is for commies, caring is for pussies, and they (the children) should be proud to be bullet sponges as school shootings and their deaths are the price of the 2nd amendment.

  12. They should have never left PBS is the first place. Consign them to posting on YouTube. If they get views, then maybe they will get the financial where wth all to pay for a mainstream broadcaster, if not, oh well.

  13. It doesn’t have some inherent right to exist and most people simply don’t care about it anymore. Been a parent for near twenty years and not sure I’ve ever known a kid that cared for it, personally.

  14. I am sure it will be picked up by one of the new era streaming apps or even Samsung to play on repeat on one of their plus channels.

  15. Turn off the tv stop learning things and yearn for mine to meat packing deaths already

  16. Netflix should grab it. And Electric Co, 321 Contact, Reading Rainbow, and all the educational stuff it can before it’s confiscated and destroyed.

  19. It’s a great show but the competition is significantly more than in the past for children’s programming. By age 3 I’ve noticed kids tend to move onto other shows. Mecha Builders was great show to entertain slightly older young kids but I guess it wasn’t enough.

  20. the last thing anyone wants is angry sesame street characters. Elmo -> Hellmo in .3 seconds

  21. *reads article to see who would shut down an iconic educational program*

    Of course it’s Warner Bros. Discovery. Those assholes shut down roosterteeth. They shut down anything even remotely creative.

    Sorry, just venting. Seriously though, Warner Bros. Discovery is just a bunch of meanie heads.

  24. Dont worry, taylor swift, the capitalist pig is all you need to worry your children with. Buy one of the many dozens of books about how she is a hero and icon aimed at children at any supermarket or walmart. 

  25. One of the only kids shows proven to actually teach children lessons in math, reading and social skills.

  27. Literally the only kids show my daughter feels a connection to, I hope it lands somewhere that supports the vision. I loved it as a kid, but I assumed it wouldn’t hit with kids today, but Elmo, Abby, Bert, and Ernie are my kids favorite celebrities.

  29. I really don’t get the YouTube thing. I guess once my toddler’s in school and around other kids she’ll be exposed to it but we watch Sesame Street all the time. It’s the only thing I truly feel good about showing her, the only show that puts an emphasis on learning numbers and letters. Beg as she might she won’t be getting an iPad for an incredibly long time and we never show her games or short clips on our phones. And don’t think I’m an anti-screen time snob, I’m pregnant and have been sick off and on all winter: we watch way too much TV. But it starts and ends with regular old school TV. It just breaks my heart that there isn’t a market for this anymore. 

  30. It’s time for the CBC to step up. Canada has a rich history of children’s programming. Let us do this for our American neighbours.

  31. Disney seems to be the most appropriate. They already own the Muppets…

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